Tire-tool.



T. C HULLIDAY.

TIRE TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, I916.

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THOMAS CATGHINGS I-IOLLIDAY, 0F CANTON, MISSISSIPPI.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

TIRE-TOOL.

Patented May 22,12ld.

Application filed November 4, 1916. Serial No. 129,466.

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

It is well known that a headless tack or the like, embedded in a tire,if not located and removed after it has produced a puncture, willproduce successive punctures. An important object of my invention is toprovide a tool having the general character of a scraper, adapted to bepassed over the interior surface of the tire casing and which willunfailingly locate an embedded tack, pin, or other puncturing substancewhile at the same time the scraper will be efiective in clearing theinner surface of the casing by loosening up and removing sand or othermatter adhering thereto and which, when permitted to remain on thecasing, not infrequently results in what is known as sand punctures.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a resilient curvedscraper device which, when applied to the casing with scraping pressure,will accommodate itself to the radii of tires of different sizes.

The distinctive character of the improved tool whereby the foregoingobjects are at tained will clearly appear from the specific descriptionfollowing,

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification in which similar reference characters indicatecorresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tire tool constructed in accordancewith my invention;

Fig. 2 is an elevation taken at right angles to Fig. 1.

In carrying out my invention in accord ance with the illustratedexample, a bowed member 10 in the form of a flat, resilient metallicstrip is supported at its ends on divergent resilient arms 11 andpreferably is formed integral with said arms.

The side arms 11 are flattened and taper toward their inner convergentends as indicated at 12, Fig. 2. The flattened side arms are integralwith round rods 13 due to the device being formed of a round rod,flattened to produce the resilient members 10,

11 and returned on itself, the round portions of the rod being twistedtogether to constitute a handle 13.

In operating on the interior of a casing, the bowed member 10 isdisposed trans versely of the casing and caused to exert a' scrapingaction thereon. The resiliency of the member 10 and the arms 11 willpermit of these members yielding so that the bowed element may conformto a casing of greater radii than the normal radii of said element. Itwill be obvious that upon being passed over the inner surface of thecasing, the contacting side edge of the bowed member 10 will serve toengage any protruding or embedded tack or the like so that the latter isreadily located. Also, it will be clear that the inner surface of thecasing may be thoroughly cleaned by loosening and scraping off anyadhering sand or other matter, thereby preventing sand punctures.

The drawings show pincer jaws 14 on the handle normally in closerelation at their end portions as at 15, but these are not claimed inthe present application.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A tool of the class described including a handle, a resilient scraperelement of thin, plate-like material disposed transverse to the axis ofthe handle and presenting broad front and back surfaces substantiallyperpendicular to the general plane of the tool, said element beingflexible in the said plane and non-yielding in a transverse plane, theopposite edges of the bowed element being in the form of narrow dullscraper edges, and resilient members connected with the handle and withthe bowed element at the ends only thereof to be responsive to ayielding of the said element in the plane of the tool, said resilientconnecting members being flattened and tapering from the bowed elementtoward the handle.

2. A tool of the class described including a handle, resilient arms onthe handle at the front end and diverging therefrom, and a bowedresilient element united at its ends with the forward end of said arms,said bowed element being flat, presenting arcuate scraper edges, and thearms being flattened and tapering from the bowed element toward thehandle.

3. A tool of the class described including a retnrned n itself. a dunite to f rm;

a handle, the intermediate portion of the a resilient bowed element, anda handle subsaid rod being fiattened, forming a resilient stantiallyperpendicular to the said bowed 10 bowed front end having areuatescraper element andfiexibly connectedtherewith at edges. at oppositesides and flattened: side both ends of the latter, the opposite edges of'arms integral with said bowed elements, the said bowed element being inthe form said arms-convergingfrom the-bowedeleof-narrow dull scraperedges.

ment to the handle. 7 p p 4. A tool of the class described includingTHOMAS GATGHINGS HOLLIDAY.

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